The whole fitting was brass, nuts and bolts included. Cool cork gasket. Never had one break, it was a eastern WA AG supplier that turned me on to them, my boys on the west side of Washington State had never heard of them.

The whole fitting was brass, nuts and bolts included. Cool cork gasket. Never had one break, it was a eastern WA AG supplier that turned me on to them, my boys on the west side of Washington State had never heard of them.

They were very popular around here a while back but I have dug up some that failed because they had regular steel bolts.Posted via Mobile Device

The biggest knock on saddle tees wasn't the fitting itself. It was that the hole you melted could present a weak point in poly pipe that had been stretched when it was pulled, and later on become the point where the hole turns into a break.